| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Niels Henrik Abel |
Mathematician |
5-Aug-1802 |
6-Apr-1829 |
Studied elliptics and hyperelliptics |
| Maria Gaetana Agnesi |
Mathematician |
16-May-1718 |
9-Jan-1799 |
Instituzioni Analitiche |
| Archimedes |
Mathematician |
c. 290 BC |
211 BC |
Greatest of the ancient mathematicians |
| Michael Atiyah |
Mathematician |
22-Apr-1929 |
|
Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
| Charles Babbage |
Mathematician |
26-Dec-1791 |
18-Oct-1871 |
Inventor of the Difference Engine |
| Thomas Bayes |
Mathematician |
1701 |
7-Apr-1761 |
Bayes' theorem |
| Daniel Bernoulli |
Mathematician |
8-Feb-1700 |
27-Mar-1782 |
Fluid dynamics |
| Johann Bernoulli |
Mathematician |
27-Jul-1667 |
1-Jan-1748 |
L'Hôpital's rule |
| Lipman Bers |
Mathematician |
22-May-1914 |
29-Oct-1993 |
Riemann surfaces |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel |
Astronomer |
22-Jul-1784 |
17-Mar-1846 |
Pioneer in precision astronomy |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| David H. Blackwell |
Mathematician |
24-Apr-1919 |
8-Jul-2010 |
Bayesian statistics |
| Boethius |
Philosopher |
c. 470 AD |
524 AD |
Consolation of Philosophy |
| George Boole |
Mathematician |
2-Nov-1815 |
8-Dec-1864 |
Inventor of Boolean Algebra |
| Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich |
Astronomer |
18-May-1711 |
13-Feb-1787 |
Theoria philosophiae naturalis |
| Satyendra Nath Bose |
Physicist |
1-Jan-1894 |
4-Feb-1974 |
Bose-Einstein condensates |
| Pierre Bouguer |
Mathematician |
16-Feb-1698 |
15-Aug-1758 |
French photometrist |
| Nathaniel Bowditch |
Astronomer |
26-Mar-1773 |
17-Mar-1838 |
American Practical Navigator |
| Ira S. Bowen |
Astronomer |
21-Dec-1898 |
6-Feb-1973 |
Debunked nebulium |
| George Box |
Mathematician |
18-Oct-1919 |
|
Statistician at University of Wisconsin |
| Ernest W. Brown |
Astronomer |
29-Nov-1866 |
22-Jul-1938 |
Tables of the Motion of the Moon |
| Georg Cantor |
Mathematician |
3-Mar-1845 |
6-Jan-1918 |
Founder of set theory |
| Girolamo Cardano |
Doctor |
24-Sep-1501 |
21-Sep-1576 |
De Subtilitate |
| Lazare Carnot |
Mathematician |
13-May-1753 |
22-Aug-1823 |
Organizer for Victory |
| Lewis Carroll |
Author |
27-Jan-1832 |
14-Jan-1898 |
Alice in Wonderland |
| Élie Cartan |
Mathematician |
9-Apr-1869 |
6-May-1951 |
Spinor groups |
| Henri Cartan |
Mathematician |
8-Jul-1904 |
13-Aug-2008 |
Leader of the math Bourbakistes |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy |
Mathematician |
21-Aug-1789 |
23-May-1857 |
Infinitesimals, theory of substitution groups |
| Sydney Chapman |
Mathematician |
29-Jan-1888 |
16-Jun-1970 |
Geomagnetism |
| Alonzo Church |
Mathematician |
14-Jun-1903 |
11-Aug-1995 |
Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis |
| Marquis de Condorcet |
Philosopher |
17-Sep-1743 |
29-Mar-1794 |
French Enlightenment philosopher |
| John Conway |
Mathematician |
26-Dec-1937 |
|
Game of Life |
| Nicolaus Copernicus |
Astronomer |
19-Feb-1473 |
24-May-1543 |
Heliocentrist, De revolutionibus |
| Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis |
Mathematician |
21-May-1792 |
19-Sep-1843 |
Coriolis force |
| Allan M. Cormack |
Physicist |
23-Feb-1924 |
7-May-1998 |
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) |
| Thomas George Cowling |
Mathematician |
17-Jun-1906 |
16-Jun-1990 |
Cowling model |
| Haskell Curry |
Mathematician |
12-Sep-1900 |
1-Sep-1982 |
Combinatory Logic |
| Jean le Rond d'Alembert |
Mathematician |
17-Nov-1717 |
29-Oct-1783 |
Early work in partial differential equations |
| George Darwin |
Astronomer |
9-Jul-1845 |
7-Dec-1912 |
Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system |
| Augustus De Morgan |
Mathematician |
27-Jun-1806 |
18-Mar-1871 |
De Morgan's Laws |
| Willem de Sitter |
Astronomer |
6-May-1872 |
19-Nov-1934 |
Expanding space |
| Richard Dedekind |
Mathematician |
6-Oct-1831 |
12-Feb-1916 |
Developed theory of irrational numbers |
| John Dee |
Mathematician |
13-Jul-1527 |
26-Mar-1609 |
Mathematician and mystic |
| William Dembski |
Religion |
18-Jul-1960 |
|
Intelligent Design proponent |
| W. Edwards Deming |
Mathematician |
14-Oct-1900 |
20-Dec-1993 |
Quality Control guru |
| Democritus |
Philosopher |
c. 460 BC |
c. 370 BC |
Early atomic theorist |
| René Descartes |
Philosopher |
31-Mar-1596 |
11-Feb-1650 |
Discours de la Méthode |
| Persi Diaconis |
Mathematician |
31-Jan-1945 |
|
Science of random numbers |
| Diophantus |
Mathematician |
fl. 3rd c. AD |
fl. 3rd c. AD |
Arithmetica |
| Albrecht Dürer |
Engraver |
21-May-1471 |
6-Apr-1528 |
German Renaissance artist |
| Freeman Dyson |
Physicist |
15-Dec-1923 |
|
Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study |
| José Echegaray |
Playwright |
19-Apr-1832 |
14-Sep-1916 |
Nobel Prizewinning Spanish dramatist |
| Francis Edgeworth |
Mathematician |
8-Feb-1845 |
13-Feb-1926 |
Pure Theory of Taxation |
| Samuel Eilenberg |
Mathematician |
30-Sep-1913 |
30-Jan-1998 |
Category theory |
| Taher Elgamal |
Computer Programmer |
18-Aug-1955 |
|
Inventor of the Elgamal crypto algorithm |
| Robert Emden |
Mathematician |
4-Mar-1862 |
8-Oct-1940 |
Stellar structure |
| Eratosthenes |
Mathematician |
276 BC |
194 BC |
First to measure the Earth |
| Paul Erdos |
Mathematician |
26-Mar-1913 |
20-Sep-1996 |
Loved only numbers |
| Euclid |
Mathematician |
c. 365 BC |
c. 275 BC |
Father of geometry |
| Eudoxus of Cnidus |
Mathematician |
c. 390 BC |
c. 340 BC |
Influential Greek mathematician |
| Leonhard Euler |
Mathematician |
15-Apr-1707 |
18-Sep-1783 |
The Elements of Euclid |
| Hugh Everett |
Physicist |
11-Nov-1930 |
19-Jul-1982 |
Many Worlds Theory of quantum physics |
| Pierre Fatou |
Mathematician |
28-Feb-1878 |
10-Aug-1929 |
Complex analytic dynamics |
| Pierre de Fermat |
Mathematician |
17-Aug-1601 |
12-Jan-1665 |
Fermat's Last Theorem |
| Leonardo Fibonacci |
Mathematician |
c. 1175 |
1250 |
Liber Abacis |
| Bruno de Finetti |
Mathematician |
13-Jun-1906 |
20-Jul-1985 |
Subjective probability |
| Ronald Fisher |
Mathematician |
17-Feb-1890 |
29-Jul-1962 |
Analysis of variance and covariance |
| Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1768 |
16-May-1830 |
Fourier series |
| Maurice Fréchet |
Mathematician |
2-Sep-1878 |
4-Jun-1973 |
Fréchet differential |
| Gottlob Frege |
Mathematician |
8-Nov-1848 |
26-Jul-1925 |
Mathematical logician |
| Martin Gardner |
Mathematician |
21-Oct-1914 |
22-May-2010 |
Mathematical games, Scientific American |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss |
Mathematician |
30-Apr-1777 |
23-Feb-1855 |
Perhaps the greatest German mathematician |
| J. Willard Gibbs |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1839 |
28-Apr-1903 |
Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics |
| Kurt Gödel |
Mathematician |
28-Apr-1906 |
14-Jan-1978 |
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems |
| Carlos de Singuenza y Góngora |
Mathematician |
20-Aug-1645 |
22-Aug-1700 |
Mathematician, historian of the New World |
| Ronald Graham |
Mathematician |
31-Oct-1935 |
|
Mathematician, Computer Scientist |
| Alexander Grothendieck |
Mathematician |
28-May-1928 |
|
Grothendieck topologies |
| Jacques-Salomon Hadamard |
Mathematician |
8-Dec-1865 |
17-Oct-1963 |
Prime number theorem |
| Sir William Rowan Hamilton |
Mathematician |
3-Aug-1805 |
2-Sep-1865 |
Inventor of Quaternions |
| G. H. Hardy |
Mathematician |
7-Feb-1877 |
1-Dec-1947 |
A Mathematician's Apology |
| Herbert A. Hauptman |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1917 |
23-Oct-2011 |
X-ray diffraction studies |
| Hero of Alexandria |
Mathematician |
c. 10 AD |
c. 70 AD |
Metrica |
| John Herschel |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1792 |
11-May-1871 |
Discovered many moons of Saturn |
| David Hilbert |
Mathematician |
23-Jan-1862 |
14-Feb-1943 |
Hilbert Space |
| George W. Hill |
Astronomer |
3-Mar-1838 |
16-Apr-1914 |
A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn |
| Hipparchus |
Astronomer |
c. 190 BC |
c. 120 BC |
Cataloguer of stars, trigonometrist |
| Grace Murray Hopper |
Computer Programmer |
9-Dec-1906 |
1-Jan-1992 |
Computer programming pioneer |
| Christiaan Huygens |
Physicist |
14-Apr-1629 |
8-Jul-1695 |
Wave theory of light |
| Kiyoshi Ito |
Mathematician |
7-Sep-1915 |
10-Nov-2008 |
Ito Calculus |
| Sir James Ivory |
Mathematician |
17-Feb-1765 |
21-Sep-1842 |
Ivory's Theorem |
| Karl Gustav Jacobi |
Mathematician |
10-Dec-1804 |
18-Feb-1851 |
Investigated elliptical functions |
| James H. Jeans |
Astronomer |
11-Sep-1877 |
16-Sep-1946 |
Continuous creation theory |
| William Stanley Jevons |
Economist |
1-Sep-1835 |
13-Aug-1882 |
Theory of Political Economy |
| Gaston Julia |
Mathematician |
3-Feb-1893 |
19-Mar-1978 |
Creator of the Julia Sets |
| Ted Kaczynski |
Criminal |
22-May-1942 |
|
The Unabomber |
| Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich |
Mathematician |
19-Jan-1912 |
7-Apr-1986 |
Linear programming |
| Theodore von Kármán |
Mathematician |
11-May-1881 |
7-May-1963 |
Kármán vortices |
| Johannes Kepler |
Astronomer |
27-Dec-1571 |
15-Nov-1630 |
Laws of Planetary Motion |
| Roy Kerr |
Mathematician |
16-May-1934 |
|
Rotating black holes |
| Omar Khayyam |
Mathematician |
18-May-1048 |
4-Dec-1131 |
Rubaiyat |
| Tom Kibble |
Mathematician |
1932 |
|
Zurek-Kibble theory |
| Joseph-Louis Lagrange |
Mathematician |
25-Jan-1736 |
10-Apr-1813 |
Mécanique Analytique |
| Johann Heinrich Lambert |
Mathematician |
26-Aug-1728 |
25-Sep-1777 |
Pyrometrie |
| Jonathan Homer Lane |
Astronomer |
9-Aug-1819 |
3-May-1880 |
Gravitational equilibrium of the Sun |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace |
Mathematician |
23-Mar-1749 |
5-Mar-1827 |
Traité du Mécanique Céleste |
| Adrien-Marie Legendre |
Mathematician |
18-Sep-1752 |
10-Jan-1833 |
Traité des Fonctions Elliptiques |
| Gottfried Leibniz |
Mathematician |
1-Jul-1646 |
14-Nov-1716 |
Co-Inventor of calculus |
| Tom Leighton |
Mathematician |
c. 1956 |
|
Co-founder of Akamai |
| Tullio Levi-Civita |
Mathematician |
29-Mar-1873 |
29-Dec-1941 |
Explored tensor calculus and PDE's |
| Daniel Lewin |
Mathematician |
14-May-1970 |
11-Sep-2001 |
Co-founder of Akamai, died in 9/11 |
| Edward Lorenz |
Scientist |
23-May-1917 |
16-Apr-2008 |
Chaos theory |
| Ada Lovelace |
Mathematician |
10-Dec-1815 |
27-Nov-1852 |
Programmed the (theoretical) difference engine |
| Jan Lukasiewicz |
Mathematician |
21-Dec-1878 |
13-Feb-1956 |
Invented Reverse Polish Notation |
| Szolem Mandelbrojt |
Mathematician |
1899 |
1983 |
French Mathematician |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Fractal mathematician |
| Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis |
Astronomer |
28-Sep-1698 |
27-Jul-1759 |
Sur la figure de la terre |
| Kurt Mendelssohn |
Mathematician |
7-Jan-1906 |
18-Sep-1980 |
Cryogenics and pyramids |
| Marin Mersenne |
Mathematician |
8-Sep-1588 |
1-Sep-1648 |
L'Harmonie universelle |
| E. Arthur Milne |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1896 |
21-Sep-1950 |
Kinematic relativity |
| Hermann Minkowski |
Mathematician |
22-Jun-1864 |
12-Jan-1909 |
Minkowski space |
| Leon Mirsky |
Mathematician |
19-Dec-1918 |
1-Dec-1983 |
Transversal Theory |
| August Möbius |
Astronomer |
17-Nov-1790 |
26-Sep-1868 |
Möbius strip |
| Keith Moffatt |
Mathematician |
12-Apr-1935 |
|
Fluid dynamics |
| Abraham de Moivre |
Mathematician |
26-May-1667 |
27-Nov-1754 |
Doctrine of Chances |
| Charlotte E. Moore |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1898 |
3-Mar-1990 |
Technetium in the Sun |
| John Nash |
Mathematician |
13-Jun-1928 |
|
Schizophrenic game theorist |
| Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
| Jean Nicholas Nicollet |
Explorer |
24-Jul-1786 |
11-Sep-1843 |
Surveyor of the Mississippi basin |
| Øystein Ore |
Mathematician |
7-Oct-1899 |
13-Aug-1968 |
Ring theorist |
| William Oughtred |
Mathematician |
5-Mar-1574 |
30-Jun-1660 |
Inventor of the slide rule |
| Drazen Pantic |
Activist |
1956 |
|
Micromedia activist |
| Seymour Papert |
Computer Programmer |
1-Mar-1928 |
|
Programming language LOGO |
| Blaise Pascal |
Mathematician |
19-Jun-1623 |
19-Aug-1662 |
French thinker and mathematician |
| John Allen Paulos |
Mathematician |
4-Jul-1945 |
|
Innumeracy |
| George Peacock |
Mathematician |
9-Apr-1791 |
8-Nov-1858 |
Treatise on Algebra |
| Giuseppe Peano |
Mathematician |
27-Aug-1858 |
20-Apr-1932 |
Infinitesimal calculus |
| Benjamin Peirce |
Mathematician |
4-Apr-1809 |
10-Jun-1880 |
Idempotent and nilpotent |
| Charles Sanders Peirce |
Philosopher |
10-Sep-1839 |
19-Apr-1914 |
Founder of Pragmatism |
| Roger Penrose |
Mathematician |
8-Aug-1931 |
|
Theory of cosmic censorship |
| Grigori Perelman |
Mathematician |
13-Jun-1966 |
|
Proved the Poincaré conjecture |
| Clifford A. Pickover |
Mathematician |
15-Aug-1957 |
|
Mathematician and prolific author |
| Mario Pieri |
Mathematician |
22-Jun-1860 |
1-Mar-1913 |
Italian geometer |
| John Playfair |
Mathematician |
10-Mar-1748 |
20-Jul-1819 |
Huttonian Theory of the Earth |
| Julius Plücker |
Mathematician |
16-Jul-1801 |
22-May-1868 |
Analytical geometry |
| Henri Poincaré |
Mathematician |
29-Apr-1854 |
17-Jul-1912 |
Poincaré Conjecture |
| Siméon-Denis Poisson |
Mathematician |
21-Jun-1781 |
25-Apr-1840 |
Poisson distribution |
| Joseph Proudman |
Mathematician |
30-Dec-1888 |
26-Jun-1975 |
Tidal currents |
| Ptolemy |
Astronomer |
c. 87 AD |
c. 150 AD |
Egyptian geographer and astronomer |
| Hilary Putnam |
Philosopher |
31-Jul-1926 |
|
Philosophy of Mind |
| Pythagoras |
Mathematician |
c. 580 BC |
c. 500 BC |
Pythagorean Theorem |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan |
Mathematician |
22-Dec-1887 |
26-Apr-1920 |
Self-educated mathematician |
| Lord Rayleigh |
Physicist |
12-Nov-1842 |
30-Jun-1919 |
Why the sky is blue |
| Martin Rees |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1942 |
|
President of the Royal Society |
| Eric Reissner |
Mathematician |
5-Jan-1913 |
1-Nov-1996 |
Reissner shear-deformation plate theory |
| Franz Reuleaux |
Mathematician |
30-Sep-1829 |
20-Aug-1905 |
Father of modern kinematics |
| Bernhard Riemann |
Mathematician |
17-Sep-1826 |
20-Jul-1866 |
Topologist, also Riemann Hypothesis |
| David Rittenhouse |
Astronomer |
8-Apr-1732 |
26-Jun-1796 |
Early Pennsylvania scientist and statesman |
| Ron Rivest |
Computer Programmer |
1947 |
|
The R in RSA |
| Gilles Personne de Roberval |
Mathematician |
8-Aug-1602 |
27-Oct-1675 |
Geometry of curves |
| Erno Rubik |
Inventor |
13-Jul-1944 |
|
Rubik's Cube |
| Rudy Rucker |
Novelist |
22-Mar-1946 |
|
Author of Wetware series |
| Bertrand Russell |
Mathematician |
18-May-1872 |
2-Feb-1970 |
Mathematician, atheist, and social critic |
| Abdus Salam |
Physicist |
29-Jan-1926 |
21-Nov-1996 |
Electroweak Theory |
| Reinhard Selten |
Economist |
5-Oct-1930 |
|
Game theory |
| Adi Shamir |
Mathematician |
1952 |
|
The S in RSA |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| Waclaw Sierpinski |
Mathematician |
14-Mar-1882 |
21-Oct-1969 |
Sierpinski's gasket |
| James Simons |
Mathematician |
c. 1938 |
|
Renaissance Technologies hedge fund |
| Isadore Singer |
Mathematician |
3-May-1924 |
|
Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
| Simon Stevin |
Mathematician |
1548 |
1620 |
Founder of hydrostatics |
| Ian Stewart |
Mathematician |
24-Sep-1945 |
|
Catastrophe theory |
| James Stirling |
Mathematician |
1692 |
5-Dec-1770 |
Methodus differentialis |
| George Gabriel Stokes |
Physicist |
13-Aug-1819 |
1-Feb-1903 |
Fluid dynamicist, optic waves |
| Charles François Sturm |
Mathematician |
29-Sep-1803 |
18-Dec-1855 |
Sturm's Theorem |
| James Joseph Sylvester |
Mathematician |
3-Sep-1814 |
15-Mar-1897 |
Studied finite analysis |
| Peter Guthrie Tait |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1831 |
4-Jul-1901 |
Treatise on Quaternions |
| Terence Tao |
Mathematician |
17-Jul-1975 |
|
Prolific math prodigy |
| Alfred Tarski |
Mathematician |
14-Jan-1902 |
26-Oct-1983 |
Tarski's indefinability theorem |
| Niccolò Tartaglia |
Mathematician |
1499 |
13-Dec-1557 |
Inaugurated science of Ballistics |
| Brook Taylor |
Mathematician |
18-Aug-1685 |
29-Dec-1731 |
Calculus of Finite Differences |
| D'Arcy Thompson |
Biologist |
2-May-1860 |
21-Jun-1948 |
On Growth and Form |
| Evangelista Torricelli |
Mathematician |
15-Oct-1608 |
25-Oct-1647 |
Inventor of the barometer |
| John Townsend |
Mathematician |
7-Jun-1868 |
16-Feb-1957 |
Electron's charge |
| Paul Turan |
Mathematician |
28-Aug-1910 |
26-Sep-1976 |
Hungarian mathematician |
| Alan Turing |
Mathematician |
23-Jun-1912 |
7-Jun-1954 |
Computing pioneer |
| Petr Ufimtsev |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1931 |
|
Physical Theory of Diffraction |
| John Venn |
Mathematician |
4-Aug-1834 |
4-Apr-1923 |
Venn diagrams |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Georgy Voronoy |
Mathematician |
28-Apr-1868 |
20-Nov-1908 |
Voronoi diagram |
| John Wallis |
Mathematician |
23-Nov-1616 |
28-Oct-1703 |
Arithmetica Infinitorum |
| James Craig Watson |
Astronomer |
28-Jan-1838 |
23-Nov-1880 |
Claimed to discover the planet Vulcan |
| William Whiston |
Religion |
9-Dec-1667 |
22-Aug-1752 |
Apostolical Constitutions |
| Alfred North Whitehead |
Mathematician |
15-Feb-1861 |
30-Dec-1947 |
Metaphysical mathematician |
| Norbert Wiener |
Mathematician |
26-Nov-1894 |
18-Mar-1964 |
Cybernetics |
| Andrew Wiles |
Mathematician |
11-Apr-1953 |
|
Proved Fermat's Last Theorem |
| Stephen Wolfram |
Mathematician |
29-Aug-1959 |
|
Creator of Mathematica |
| Iannis Xenakis |
Composer |
9-May-1922 |
4-Feb-2001 |
Avant-garde composer |
| Robert J. Zimmer |
Educator |
5-Nov-1947 |
|
President, University of Chicago |
| Max Zorn |
Mathematician |
6-Jun-1906 |
9-Mar-1993 |
Zorn's Lemma |
